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x : Le'A Ntq't • `i^ If • :,!::1;<:;.:t'ot: • 4 4 61, -• - * 'T:4%4;4 , •-• ~~ ~ A { .y.I H WE DNES DA Y, MAY 10, 1809. NUMBER 5 tO 7.) [PRICE SIXPEN Cin FRENCH BULLETIN.. paign was opened by a battle; which was most glo rious to our arms. General St. Hilaire, suppotted by General Friant, overturned every thing that was opposed to him, and took all the positions of the - enemy, killed a great number of them, and made be tween 6 and 700 prisoners. visions, forced the extremity of the enemy's left, and Overthrew every thing that was opposedlo and advanced, to Rohr and Rosemburgh. Our can nonade n'as successful on all points. The enemy, disconcerted by our movements did not fight tor more than an hour, and then beat a retreat.. Eight standards, 12 pieces of cannon, and mono pri soners, were the result of this affair, which cost us but a few men. , ing these proceedings, our light infantry tried to git possession of the city. By a most unaccountable dig. position of his force, the Austrian General sacritad six regiments there without any reason, The city surrounded with a bad wall, a bad ditch; and a btid counterscarp. The artillery haVing arrived, the city was battered with some 10 pounders, It was reetal leeed that there was one part of the tortifieatione where, by means of a ladder, it was possible tolle wend into the ditch, and to pass on .the other Sidi through a breach in the wall. 'The Duke of Mon tebello caused a battalion to pass through this open ing; they gaintAl a postern, and introduced then salves • into the city. All those who made resistance were cut to pieces : the number of prisoners exceeded -8000. In - consequence of these Unskilful dispc i. tions, the enemy had not time to destroy the bridge; and the French passed pell-mell with them to the left Bank. This unfortunate City, which they were barbarous enough to defend, has sutrered consider ably. A part of it was on fire during the night. but by the efforts of General Morsnd and his division; it was extinguished, Thus, at the battle of the Emperor beat separately the two ccirpt of the Archduke Lents and General Keller ; at the. battle of Landslit. He took the centre of their communications, and't he general depot of their ma gazines and artillery; finally; at the battle of Eck the four corps of Hohenzollern, Rosenberg; Kollowrath, and Lichtenste;n, were skteated. The corps of General litelleprde arrived the day after the battle, they could only be witnesses of , the taking of Ratisbou, and, then fled into Bohemia. In all these battles our less,amounted to teOn killed and 4000 wounded! !! • LThen follows a list of the French. Officers killed. - and . wounded, and very high eulogiums upon .the ditferent FrenchGerferalpl ~ • . FIRST BULLETIN. The 72d Regiment distinguished itself on that day, the's7th maintained its ancient reputation. Sixteen years ago, this regiment obtained in Italy the name of the Terrible. In this adion they maintained their pretensions to that title ; they attacked singly sis Austrian regiments in succession, and routed theni. TtIE BATTLEOI O LANDSHUT, "AND TAXING.OP THAT PLACE. The Battle of Landshut having laid open the flank of the Austrian army, and all their magazines, the Emperor, by break of day, on the 21st marched upon Landshut. The Duke of Istria defeated the enemy's cavalry in the plain before that city. The General of Division Mouten, made the grenadiers of the 17th advance to the charge on the bridge, forming the head of a column. This bridge which was of wood, was set on fire, but that was not an obstaele to our infantry, who forced it, and-penetrated into the city. The enemy driven-from their position, were then attacked by the Duke of Rivoli, who had advanced by the right bank. Landshut, fell into our power, and with Landshut we took 30 pieces of cannon, 9000 prisoners, 600 ammunition; waggons, 3000 baggage waggons, and the hospitals and magazines which , the Attstrians had began to form. " Some. Couriers and Aids-de-Camp of the Commander in Chief, Prince Charles, and some convoys of wound ed men, coming from Landshut, also fell into our hands. 1' - -. r, Head-Quarters at Ratisbon, April itt, Ittop. 71 , f ettntillian army passed the Inn on the gth April, hat was the signal for hostilities, and Austria declared an implacable war against France and her,. ', allies, and the Confederation of the Rhine. '• . the following were the positions of the French army and her allies : . . The corps of the Duke D'AUEBSTADT at Ratisbon. The corps of the Duke of %Vora at Ulm, The corps of Gen. OUDINOT at Augsburgh. 'The Headquarters at Strasburgh: The three divisions of Bavarians, under the Duke 01 DiatTerb,were placed as follows: ' ' T 4 first division, commanded by the. Prince '‘ 14° Yet at Munich i the second,' by Gen. Donor, at I ' 'edahut ; and the third, by Gen. Di WREDB at . • Billsburgb. • ' The Wurtemburgh division at .Heydenheim. .il The Saxon troops encamped under the walls of I. Dresden, . ' • . T he fps of the Duchy of Warsaw, commanded .bYPthi cePONIATOWSKY, in the environs of Warsaw. . O n the loth the Austrian troops invested Passau, . * here they .surrounded a battalion of Bavarians, , and et the sa me time invested Kufftein, where there f was another battalion .of Bavarians ; these move tuents took, place without eoen a shot being fired. 1 - ri rh __ ""o.Austrians published the subjoined Proclarna , , ti„,,,""" , 1 ! 1 the Tyrol. ; Th e navel - lan Court quitted Munich for Dillingen. Th e R. .-Avairan division which had been at Land- Ih4 t Went to Altorfi, on the left bank of the Iser. Ytke division under the command of General De wtede marched upon Neustadt. '' 'she Duke of Itivoli,• left Ulm for the environs of Aupburgh. )rout the 10th to the 16th the enemy's army ad vaneed from the Inn to the Iser; there were several ; ekirmislies between .parties of the cavalry, in which the Batt/aliens were successful. . On the 0111,44 Pfaffenhotien, the 2d and 3d re ' giceents of Bavarian light horse completely touted t he hussars of Stipscliitz and the Rosenberg dra .,... „,_ wet% At the same time the enemy appeared in ...'" la ttle.bod . iea for the purpose of forming at Landstiut, ' MI ' b ilhe Was broken down, and this Bavarian cli '''' visian ' cattinandrd by Gen. Duroy, vigorously op ' P°Ble d this •thovernent of the enemy, but being reat efled by •.: th , '•,, ~ the columns which had passed the , ? ..ser at Al oor b erg and Freysiug, this division retired i a ir l geed order upon that of Gen. Wrede, and the Bavarian army took a central position upon Neu ,,,.. stadt. ~ bIPARTURR OP THE EMPEROR FROM PARIS ON THE .13TH. The Emperor learnt by the telegraph, in the even ' ing of the )2th, that the Austrians had passed the In t c and he set out from Paris almost immediately. He 1: arrived at three o'clock on the morning of the IGtli V. .at Louisburg, and in the evening of the same day 1 ) at billungen, where he saw the King of Bavaria, and Passed half an hour with that Prince, and promised fifteen days to restore him to his. capital, to re venge the insults which had been 'offered to his '7 1-I°lll e, - and. to make him greater than any of his ancestors had ever been. On the 17th, at two o'clock in the morning, his -Majesty arrived:at ,Donanworth, where he itmuc diately establish e d his head-quarters, and gave the necessary orders, • 00 the teth the head-quarters were removed to Lsgolstadt, I.e.nnerart BATTLI OF PITAFT2I,I}IOFFEN 01 , 7 THE I T rrr. On the igih Gen. Oudittot quitted Augsburgh and arrived by break of day at Phaffenhuffen, where he met 3 or 4000 Austrians which be attacked, and tnek.3oo prisoners. The Duke De . Rivoli arrived t he next day at Phaffenhoffen. The same day the 'bake of Auerstadt left" Ratisbon to advance to Neu- Itad r, and to draw near to Ingolstadt. It was then evide nt that the plan of the Emperor was to ont 1114ktuvre the enemy, who , bad formed near Land shut, and to attack them at the very moment when the y, thinking they were commencing the attack, wer e marching to Ratisbon. ....1.0 rm. • RATTLE OY TANN, ON TO 19TH. (34 the igth, by break of day, the Duke D'Auer. stac k began , his march in two columns. The divi- Man i of Maraud and Gudin formed his right, the divisions of St. Hillaire • and Frlant formed his - left. The division of St. Hillaire arrived at the village of Pressing, and there met the enemy, superior in i lturlber, but inferior in brAyury, and there the CM` On the left, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Gen. MORAUD, also fell in With an Austrian Division, which' ha attacked in front while the Duke of DANTZIC, with a Corps of Bavarians, which bad marched fan Abensberg, attacked them in the rear. This`Division was soon driven from all its positions, and left seVeral' hundreds in killed and prisoners. The whole Regiment of the Dragoons of Levenher was destroyed; and its Colonel killed by the Bavarian light horse. At sun -set, the Divi sion of the Duke of DANTZIC formed its junction with that of the Duke of AUERSTADT. In all these affairs Gen. ST. HILAIRE and FRIAN? particularly distinguished themselves. Those unfortunate Aus trian trdops who had been led from Vienna with music and with songs, and under a persuasion that there was no longer any French Army in Germany, and that they would only have to deal with Wirtem burghers and Bavarians, displayed in the strongest manner, the resentment they felt against their Chiefs, for the error into which they had been led ; and their terror was the greater when they saw those old bands which they had been accustomed to con sider as their master. In all these battles, our loss was inconsiderable, compared with that of the enemy, who lost a num ber of General Officers and others, Who were obliged to put themselves forward to give courage to their troops. The Prince of LICHTENSTEIN, General LUSIGNAN, and others were wounded.— The loss of the Austrians in Colonels and Officers of lower rank, was considerable. BATTLE OF ABENBERG, ON.THE 2.0114. The Emperor resolved to beat and destroy the' Corps of the Archduke Lours and General ICztaLaa, which amounted to 60,000 men: On the oath, his, Majesty took post at Abensberg he gave orders to the Duke of AWERSTADT to keep the Corps of Ho henzollern, of [Rosenberg, and Lichtenstein, in check, while with the two Divisions of Moraud and Guden, " the Bavarians and the Wirtembtarghers, he attacked the Army of the Archduke Louts and General KBLLER in front . , and,Caused the commu nications of the enemy to be cut off by the Duke of 'tryout, who passed by Freyberg, and from thence proceeded to the rear of the Austrian army. The divisions of, Moraud and Guden formed the left, and manceuvred under the orders of the Duke of Monte bello. The Emperor determined to fight that day at the head of the Bavarians and Wirtemburghers. He ordered the Officers of these two armies to form a circle, and addressed them in a long speech. The Prince Royal of Bavaria tranilated into German what he said In French. The Emperor made them sensible of the confidence which he reposed in them. He told the Bavarian Officers that the Austrians had always been their enemies, that they now wished to destroy their independence; that for more than 200 years, the Bavarian standard had been displayed against the Austrians. But that this time he would render them, so powerful that they alone should be able to contend with the House of Austria. ' He spoke to the Wirtemburghers of the victories they had obtained over the House of Austria, when they served in the Prussian army, and of the advantages which they had recently obtained from the Cam paign in Silesia. He told them all, that the moment was come for carrying the war into the Austrian territory. This speech was repeated to the ditliarent COmpanies by the Captains, which produced an eft whiph may easily be conceived. The Ernp ror.then gave the signal for battle, and planned his manoeuvres According to the particular charaaer of the troops. General Wrede, a Bavariin Officer of great merit, was stationed at Siegenburgh, and at ticked an Austrian division, which was opposed to him. General Vandamme, who commanded the Wirtemburghers, 'attacked:the enemy on their right flank. The Duke of Dantzic, with the division of the Prince► Royal, and that of General Deroy, • marched towards the Village of Renhausen, in order to reach the grand road from Abensberg to Landshut. IThe Duke of Montebello, with his two French,di- ISATTLI Or ICKMUHL ON THE HO. While the battle.of Abensberg and that of Land shut produced such important consequences, the Archduke CUARLIS had famed a junction with the Bohemian army under KOLLOWEATII, and obtained some partial success at Ratisbon. One thousand. of the 65th, who were left to guard the bridge or Ra tisbon, and who had not received orders to retreat, having expended their cartridges, and being sur rounded by the Austrians, were obliged to surrender. This event made an impression upon the Emperor, and he swore that in 24 hours Austrian blood 'StiOiild flow in Ratisbon to resent the insult whiCh had been offered to his arms. During this time the Dukes of Auerstadt and Dantzic held in check the corps of Rosenberg, Hohenzollern, and Lichtensteiner— There was no time to be hist. The Emperor began his march from Landslint, with the two divisions of the Duke of Montebello, the corps of the Duke of Rivoli, the Cuirassiers of Nansoutz and St. Sulpice, and the Wirtemburgh division. At two o'clock in the afternoon they arrived opposite •Eckmuld, where the four corps of the Austrian army, consisting of 110,000 men, had taken a position under the com mand of the Archduke Charles. The Duke of Montebello attacked the Enemy on the left, with the division of Guditi. On the first signal the di visions of the Dukes of Auerstadt and Dantzic, and the division of light cavalry of General Montbrun, took their position. One of the most beautiful sights which war can present , then presented itself, 110,000 men attacked-on all points, turned on their left, and successively driven from all their positions, the detail of the events would be too long ; it is sufficient to say, that the enemy was completely routed ; that they lost the greater part of their can non, and a great number of prisoners; and that the Austrians, driven from the woods which cover Re tisbon, were forced into the plain, and cut off by cavalry. The Austrian cavalry, strong and mune ' rolls, attempted to cover the retreat oftheir infantry, but they were attacked by the'division of St. Sul pice on the right, and by the division of Nansoutz on the left, and the enemy's line of hussars and coi rassiers routed, more than 300 Austrian cuirassiers were made prisoners. As the night was:com mencing, our cuirassiers continued their march to Ratisbon. The division of Nausoniz met with i column of the enemy, which was escaping, end at tacked it, and compelled it to surrender : it consiit.Z ed of three Hungarian battalions of 1500 men.. The division of St. Sulpice charged another divi sion of the enemy, where the Archduke Cherles nar rowly escaped being taken. He was indebted tor his safety to the fleetnees of his horse. This en loom was also' broken -and. taken. Darkness at length compel Yd our troops to halt. In this battle of Eekrovtil not above half of the French troops were eiwged. The enemy, closely pressed, con tinued to 4efilc the whole of the night in small di visions, and in great confusion. All their wounded, the greater part of their artillery, to standards, and 20,000 prisoners, fejl into our Lands. RAMA OF ItATISBON I AND TAKING OF THAT PLACE. On the 23d, at daybreak, the army advanced Ratisbon ; the advanced guard, formed'hy the division of Gudin, and by the cuirassiets of Man sours and St. Solpice,.anti they very soh came In sight of the enemy's cavalry, which attempted to cover the city. Three successive charges took place, all of which were to our advantage. Eight thousand of their troops having been cut to pieces, the enemy precipitately repassed , the Danube. Dur- Of 222,000 of which the Austrian army was coin» posed, all have been engaged except 20,000 men; commanded by General Bellegarde. Ua the other hand, near .one half of the French army has not fired a shot. The enemy astonished by rapid move ments, which were out of their calculation, were in a moment deprived of their foolish hopes, and precipitated from a delirium of presumption to a despondency approaching to despair. GENggAL JELLACIIICH'S PROCI r AMATION TO T 1 INHABITANTS OF THE 'TYROL. "Tyrolese, you ,are still that which you %Vete formerly, the time icapproaching in Which you will be recalled to that state of prosperity, to that genuine liberty whiCh you were worn.. to enjoy ender the benignant Government of Austria. It the voice of that General, whom yea have honoured 'by acknow 'edging as your countryman, and who in the year 1799, by the viaory of Feldltirch, saved you froth imminent danger, and in the following year rendered year frontiers, from Arieberg to the valley of Kara bendtil, impenetrable to the attacks of the enemy • if this is not edisced from your recollection, listen to my words, listen, my countrymen,. and,be con:- vinced. " Your lawful Sovereign ; your father, I ought rather to say, seeks yon; place yourselves under his banners, his heart Weeds.. to see you under the dominion of a stranger., You,, his children, be- COITIC again the sons of Austria, do not undervalue that glorious appellation. The Aust rian ilrrny, more numerous than ever, more inspired, inure pattiotic, on entering on your frontiers, receive ,them as' your brothers, as the children of the same father, rally round their standards, follow the glorious exarhple of all the subjects of the Throne (if Austria. In short, follow up that conduet, that valour, with, Which you have so recently excited the admiration and applause of Europe. " Tyrolese, our God is with us; we look not for fresh conquests, but to restore again to the breast of our imperial and gracious father, brothers who have been torn from it. There is nothing to resist us— Nothing can resist us if we unite for our happi. ness,.and for our very existence.—Believe me, ry rolese4 God proteas us. DE Buz: K. , " Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa, and LicUt. Field Marshal, &c. Jew. SECOND BoLuITIN. [lead-quarters, Muhiclorf, April 27v When the Emperor left Landshut, be scot tits; Duke of isTara to proceed to the Iwo, / pltrAtie the two .corps of the Euemy beaten at Abolishing and The Austrians found on the other side Of Nel : 4,- mark a Corps of Reserve, which had arrived nu the Inn; there thoey eolletAed and gave battle at New mark, on the 251 h. The Bavarians, though inferior in number, prc . erved their position. On the, e4th the Btopewr, had sent RtvoLes Corps from Itatisbon to Strubc!rg, and from thence to Passau, where it art lye& on the 2tith. lie passed the Inn and occupied Schard;r4, , , On the tlt Montebeilo had orders to twveh upon Muhldortf. On the 27th lie Ntised the Lill and proceeihm !(:) Satza. To-day, the Emperor's head-qtiarters are nt Mob?. dord: JULL,WIfICII'S Corps, WllO. Occupied is pursued by the Duke of . Datittie, The Duke of Auerstadt is gone in pursuit of Prince CHARLES, Who is cut ciff from the Intl 11,.1 . Vienna, and has retired into the mountains of BO- With respeet to therrnpe- ror of Austila, lie op. , pears to have been before Rogan. It was reported that the Emperor bad had his kg broken. The fat% is, that it spent .hall grated the heel a his boot„ but did not touch the s'kul. All the Sovereigns and States of the Contetiency evince the most patriotic spirit, To',the second Bulletin• is annexed a Procirvna tion ot BUONArARTS to his troop 4, in yvhien he Sil3)s he has taken 300 pieces of cannon and 50,00 pi soners, and rot:Ai:its before n a rtIOW.I el tpsed to be at Vienna. '